Thursday And Other Musical Days Of The Week

Today is Thursday, and Thursday is playing tonight at Warehouse Live. The few times Craig's Hlist has said this to co-workers and friends in passing, at least the ones who don't live with their heads shoved up a concert calendar's ass, they have looked at us like we are insane.

The band Thursday is touring for the 10th anniversary of 2001's, Full Collapse, which we must have bought two copies of that year and the next because we played it so much, or it was stolen by a girlfriend. Of all the emo/screamo bands going at the time, we liked Thursday the best, but now the album sort of makes us chuckle and shake our head. We sort of left that whole scene behind after the first 30 seconds of Queens of the Stone Age's Songs For the Deaf, but that doesn't mean we won't be near the front singing, er, screaming, along to "Cross Out the Eyes."

What would have been cool is if Thursday put out a self-titled album with a lead single of the same name. "Thursday! Thursday! Thursday!" the commercials would scream, like those old monster-truck ads. It was surprisingly easy to come up with a list of CHL's favorite songs about each day of the week.

Coming up with bands named after days of the week wasn't quite as simple. There was once a band called On a Friday, but you might know them better as Radiohead. The only others worth mentioning are The Happy Mondays, 'Til Tuesday, and The Sundays, and maybe Taking Back Sunday. Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club doesn't count.

This Bob Geldof song was written in response to Brenda Ann Spencer who shot up a playground in 1979, who told authorities, ""I just did it for the fun of it. I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day."